There are so many new restaurants opening up in the Phoenix Area that I need to get to them before they close down in 6 months as many of them do![:(][:(][8D]

I travel a lot and one of the perks is that I get to eat at places I never would get to see under any other circumstance. I’ve always had a rule that I would not eat at a place that I could eat at home ( which eliminates most chains). But, I’m finding more and more that I don’t always have the time to do this during the day. 10 minutes at a McD’s vs. an hour at a roadfood place tends to be more of an issue for these days.

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Originally posted by Frankman

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Originally posted by zataar

This subject came up at my job the other day. Like most of you all, my coworkers and I love to travel and finding the greatest food is usually the top priority.

With a great deal of ecomonic "uncertainty" in the air, gas prices, etc. are some of you finding it a little more challenging making those excursions to distant places for roadfood? We have found ourselves having to cut back on travel, so we are seeking out places closer to home.

What are you doing to keep those food trips in the works? It does seem a number of you get in roadfood time while on business. Will you limit your roadfood journeys to wherever your business takes you? Will you be limiting the number of smaller trips and going for one or two big events, like Austin?

Will you not be traveling much at all and enjoying it all vicariously here?

Zataar,
I am lucky enough to live in the same state as the Sterns. There are so many places that I never knew existed. The trips will be shorter. Granted I’ll not be eating any Carolina bbq or west coast dungeoness crab but if I combine the roadfood with some siteseeing and history, it can make for a nice getaway. You can still get a motel if you want to help create a vacation type of getaway.

Hey Frankman,

We both live within a ten minute drive from each other. I have similar sentiments about eating in this state.
I think that one problem that has bothered me is that I have not made it to NYC as much as wanted to. I used to live in Wilton and taking the train from Norwalk made it a 45 minute trip to Grand Central. My question is when was the last time you were in the city? I realized that I did not go there last year at all. New York seems a little too far and a little more effort from here. It isn’t.
On the other hand, I did do some roadfood trips around the state. I posted photos and all that here, yet I feel that I failed to follow it up with photos of other places within this state.

If I was to really get off and go somewhere this year, maybe it is time to head to Boston. The problem is that I have Yankee stickers on my car and I wonder if I am safe..?[;)]

That said, I do plan on visiting family in the S.F. Bay Area.
As much as I want to do it, I wish that I could take that Austin roadfood tour. I have many reasons for wanting to go there. Any city that has a motto of "Keep Austin Weird" is where I want to visit.

It is too early to say how recession will effect things. Bills are mounting up as this winter has caused a spike in heating and electric bills for me and so many other folks here.
When it starts to snow, everyone hunkers down. It is a trickle effect as the folks that don’t come to where I work has caused me and many other staff members to get off early.

mark

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Originally posted by mr chips

I’ll be doing a bit of everything. The Chips famly will jouney to Bill Voss country in March to see the Shakespeare festival and sample the food at Novack’s in Albany, Oregon and The Wild Goose in Ashland( as well as whatever Bill comes up with). I will be going to Austin for a week( plannng to visit the boyhood homes of the current president Bush as well as eating as much road food as I can. The October 5 Oregonian dining guide featured a Portland A to Z best of Portland food list that the Chips family is slowly working its way through. the big goal of the year is to post reviews and photos of our roadfood discoveries. We also hope to take Sam to see the Redwoods in southern Oregon and Northern California.

I’m working on some bonus joints.
Meanwhile:
http://archive.mailtribune.com/archive/2006/0317/life/stories/02life.htm

I’ll be doing a bit of everything. The Chips famly will jouney to Bill Voss country in March to see the Shakespeare festival and sample the food at Novack’s in Albany, Oregon and The Wild Goose in Ashland( as well as whatever Bill comes up with). I will be going to Austin for a week( plannng to visit the boyhood homes of the current president Bush as well as eating as much road food as I can. The October 5 Oregonian dining guide featured a Portland A to Z best of Portland food list that the Chips family is slowly working its way through. the big goal of the year is to post reviews and photos of our roadfood discoveries. We also hope to take Sam to see the Redwoods in southern Oregon and Northern California.

Dearfolk,
I’m not hitting the road for awhile… I’ve gotta make my priority (at least through these cold months [not that we have that many of them]) getting my house in order…literally! — I might traipse off to Atlanta for a day or two to sell books and hunt records, or wander over to Winder (21 miles) or someplace else really close, but I’m making no real road trips until I manage to restore my house to minimum liveability, now that I can touch the money that Mama left me for that purpose!
There are quite a few restaurants here in Athens that I ache to try that have my attention, however… and reports will follow.
Barnacularly, Ort. Carlton in Rooted-To-The-Spot Athens, Georgia.

no, not changing anything…

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Originally posted by Donna Douglass

Love your kitchen sign, Pat!!!!!

Donna

[:)]
Thanks, I got for Christams one year from the waitresses at a place where I was the split shift grouchy grill man…not to them[V], that would have been suicide, but to the big bosses who couldn’t make a bread sandwich with a diagram[:D].

Love your kitchen sign, Pat!!!!!

Donna

Since I’m not on the road anymore I don’t get the chance to eat out as nearly as much.

On the upside, since I’ve spent so many years cooking this type of cuisine for a living, I get to eat it every day at home…whether I want to or not[;)][:p][:D].

(I even have an "OPEN 24/7" sign above the kitchen door…not to mention the "This Kitchen Belongs to Pat…Pat is the BOSS…Have a Problem With That, See Pat")

I haven’t slowed down yet. I got a call at 10:30 AM from my son to tell me they had found a house they thought they wanted to put an offer on. I was on the road at 12:30 PM and arrived in La Crosse, WI 170 miles away at 3:30 PM, looked at the house, gave my OK sign, went to dinner two blocks down from this house at Kate’s on State, an Italian inspired bistro, across the street from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, hit the road again at 6:30 PM and arrived home at 9:30 PM. All in a day’s activity and one more road food experience down. Yes, I took pictures. Later. [:)]

We have set plans and probably will exceed our 14,000 miles of travel last year in our RV mainly because I now have unlimited time to travel.

Restaurants are closing because of the economy and gasoline is a big factor.
Using grain to make ethanol plus added transportation costs have added to the
cost of food to the restaurants—-so restaurant prices must reflect this.
When pump prices go up, and restaurant prices go up people will eat at home or
someplace close to it. The guy on the road will eat where it is convenient.

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Originally posted by zataar

This subject came up at my job the other day. Like most of you all, my coworkers and I love to travel and finding the greatest food is usually the top priority.

With a great deal of ecomonic "uncertainty" in the air, gas prices, etc. are some of you finding it a little more challenging making those excursions to distant places for roadfood? We have found ourselves having to cut back on travel, so we are seeking out places closer to home.

What are you doing to keep those food trips in the works? It does seem a number of you get in roadfood time while on business. Will you limit your roadfood journeys to wherever your business takes you? Will you be limiting the number of smaller trips and going for one or two big events, like Austin?

Will you not be traveling much at all and enjoying it all vicariously here?

Zataar,
I am lucky enough to live in the same state as the Sterns. There are so many places that I never knew existed. The trips will be shorter. Granted I’ll not be eating any Carolina bbq or west coast dungeoness crab but if I combine the roadfood with some siteseeing and history, it can make for a nice getaway. You can still get a motel if you want to help create a vacation type of getaway.

I remember complaining when gas hit $2. I think that was 2 years ago.

We don’t alter the big-trip events…and even the ‘out-to-dinner’ evenings go on as before. What I have noticed is that during the week, my cruising the neighborhoods and towns around us, with a casual stop at Sonic and/or the Russell Stover factory, etc has really been eliminated…unless they are combined with a "real purpose" trip to town-medical visit etc.
At times the truck will sit -unmoved- in the garage for three or four days. That is a change from the days of $2.00 gas!(remember them?[:(] )